You could play jackbox with twitch streamers.

I’ve discovered over the years that these 2 commands can fix a lot of problems for a windows computer. And there’s no practical downside unless you’re running pirated software or exotic OS mods.

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

sfc /scannow

As with any advice online, its critical to research and understand what you’re doing. :D

Does chess count?

Probably Sims and SimCity, I go back to them fairly often.

The made in abyss OST.

Probably no more than a goldfish I suspect.

They’re too old for that.

Find a way for them to sleep on their own, you’ll need to say no and mean it. No matter the waterworks that may follow.

who’s not angry

Rules out goblins, sadly.

But check out Hadozee; you could go for a Planet of the Apes vibe ultra-sophisticated but crazed monkey. That would also justify the invention of a poop cannon! :D

I’m wondering if you could do this with squid proxy. It’s been ages since I used it but I recall the ability to write PHP apps for it that “mangle” connections.

Ideally an old business laptop or tablet.

Something with at least 4GB of RAM, x86_64v3 compatible processor and SSD.

Dell, Lenovo and HP all made decent tablets and business laptops so check out eBay for your country. You also might luck out with Amazon Renewed.

Drop the letter C, and reformat everything to be phonetic.

I’m wondering if this is a bit of a xy problem.

Because there’s tools like Fiddler and Hoppscotch that come to mind but it’s a bit outside your scope.

I fell down in the shop yesterday and landed on top of some large tools. There was a bunch of blood and I’m all bruised up.

I’ll be fine but sleeping last night felt like torture I couldn’t get comfortable at all and ended up sleeping against the wall.

So I can really relate to this haha

I haven’t used Reddit since I made my Lemmy account aside from when it comes up incidentally in conversations or online searches.

Reddit isn’t anime friendly and I don’t wish to support organizations that feel that way.

The TOS movies were my fave. But TNG had the best TV series in my opinion.

I watched DS9 last because they went pretty deep into space magic and I wasn’t into it.

What I’ve noticed over the years has been how accessible the unity engine is for new developers.

So many unity games tend to look the sameish. They use the same free content packs and follow the same tutorials. Unfortunately this engine also sucks for performance and it’s easy for it to feel slow and clumsy without extra effort.

After the popularity of Minecraft and Fortnite, it seems like every developer has been chasing that dragon. Bolting survival, crafting and grinding into their games.

It can be done well, but most of these games feel like classic mmorpg grinding, while offering nothing enjoyable in exchange.

On top of that there are predatory games that attempt to normalize the behavior of paying to win or accelerate earning something. Many unfortunate kids have been fooled into spending thousands of real dollars on what equates to nothing. In older games you earned outfits and characters based on skill and achievements.

Many modern games feel hollow and gross.

(I literally tried to remove all the quick settings, but there’s a minimum!)

Oh yes, this bothered me deeply the first time I encountered it.

I’ve been doing tech support for a couple decades and I have had the pleasure of training many people from all walks of life on how to use these things. Some of them never used a smartphone or even wanted it.

In the early days blackberry had an edge with the keyboard and minimal apps. It was very corporate and standardized.

As we moved onto early android phones it did have very helpful features to make it more like a dumb feature phone. Using these was a huge boon with those that didn’t care to learn how to use them or really just didn’t get it.

As time went on, these features were dropped or made irrelevant by other invasive features (like the busier and busier notification drawer)

What I found curious was many of these helpful features didn’t go away entirely but were locked behind a secret corporate mode. This more extreme level of control is typically exposed through MDM software.

I’ve found over the years that apple devices (these also have a corpo mode) are easier for the elderly to use as the UI has largely stayed the same and the OS treats you like you’re dumb. It has better accessibility options and my elderly customers love talking to siri.

I feel like as the knobs and levers generations dies out; the attention manufacturers and designers put towards this demographic dwindle drastically.

I remember the old GameBoy with the contrast knob on the side was super useful, and something like that may be useful. But there is also the argument if you’ve reached this point in life today, you’re probably not going to use it unless forced to. And teaching people who feel forced into something is unproductive and often makes them more afraid of technology. Some would say leave them to the wolves by this point. (not how I feel)

Have you seen the movies?

Depends on how much he loves Data.

Everything I Wanted - Billie Eilish

I feel like you could do a really dark Scrooge themed story from it.

Video games in general, I’ve never stopped playing them.

There was a period of time where I thought I stopped liking them. But it was just because everything new was trash (early access slop or f2p nonsense) or my anti-genres.